The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-12-31

or the Sp00lSn f0QT0 ClElAO
Gazed, horror-strickenl
. "Your Grace must know"
He wrote with haste to the Orders head.
What shame by our Order here IL spread;
An idle, battening rot. they dwell
Unmindful each Of his cord and cell
In galleried convent, tall and fair.
Misgoverned by ono named Dagobsrt
"a bibulous Erenchman, gross and rat.
Who wears q gracelexs thrse-cornered aat'
And takes his snuff from jewslsd box.)
They have cunningly carven singing clocks
In their factory; whom they dine
They drink the best and the beadisst wine:
They have silver spoons and forks-"sy.
moro,
Thew have special spoons for the cafe moor
That clears their brains when the fsast h
| DER
ssThis is Dagobsrt" (so the Padre ssid)
;. "Usurps the power Of the Chureh's Head.
And care not fig what Rome has wrought
The Santa Cruzada itself IL nsu8ht:
And thirty years it hath been, In fui''
. Since Papal or Apostolic Bull
4 Hath reached his flock but the people ARE
+ Content to follow tho singing Perss
q For in truth he sings, and sings, aiast
a With seraph's tongue at the daily mass.
= Further he told how this singing priest
It FORGOT the fast aud shifted the feast
= or the Holy Church at his own good will.
IS With the people blindly following still.
e He limited at comedy quadroons astars
o With bold black eyes at morning prayer
10 In the convent chapel, or strollfng, gay,
az Through the convent halls at close OF day.
" "And the rascals grow daily richer! Your
Is Grace
10 lie groaned) ''must look to this goddess
ic place,
And humble tho head OF this naughty
frair!'
His Grace was shocked. With a holy ire
He sped his edict across the sea.
u. Hnt a wrathful Providence heard the
decree,
And Coy ernor, Alcado, citizen stsid,
RitfraG, soldier, matron, and maid,
ed All swore nor Church nor State should dare
mt To rob them of Father Dsgobert!
ed So back to Spain the Paure went,
DR. Humbled himself, and penitent.
of The Pere, unruffleu, pursued his way,
.he Disturbed uor vexed to his dying day SA
for And the frairs rejoiced to their converts
COS core,
ate And slept and alto at their ease once moro
III.
Down in the wood-crown Cimetisrs
St Louis reposes the worthy Pers;
"a Aud they say, when the nights were warm
ing and sweet,
lys: And stayed is the sound OF Passins 'ee''
g is That he chambers "o"n ''o'' '"
mr. treat
Tn the crumbling vault, and UP and down
.a., Tho narrow walks, in his tine serge gown
in AN. 'n' W. -, 80, .,,. hr.,l NJ d.v
nen Anu 80, ,,,,.- ~ IN. old rrui,as
of Anu .ne p.,':Y .t;.r. ~ oo,o.m
G of Auu 'ne oraars cowe tbropsius
the WIN ~
,rial , .,,t.-a sbadowv rout--
ars.
ver. To sit atop of the moldy stones,
roat That cover the common plebeian bones,
nre- Aud listen all wrapped in a vapory mist !;
While tho hands they have pressed, the itE
they have kissed,
In the olden days. grow warm again.
,eed- ~:
Far. For a hundred years and more grow brigt
With the deathless joys OF iehe-soH
night.
oeih "A bell in Don Almonasters tower
date BY the old Place d'Armes rings out IL
merry Short in his canticle stops the Pers
. To cross himself and nautter PRAYER;
Then he climbs to his chilly restiBG-pls
And pulls his cape up over his face,
NOM And folds his hands in patient way.
nv" And rests himself through the hTsio'
arish day.
4 the The danes and courtiers Slowly f's ss,s.,
,.,,;,. Brushing the dews from their soften
Nhils eyes.
| for And courtesying grandly as they Co.
They pass along in a stately row
arty. They pause at the doors OF their FAM
-, - tombS-
IS 10 CHANGING askance at the inner gloom,
negro And lifting finger with slow dsmar-
To saw with that air of conhoiSsenr ,
l., aud That greeted, a Manon, when she and til
the Trod the stage OF the S,ea 49,, and rare
The singing of Father DaGoperti